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Pea Plant Experiments
- When
- 1856-1863
- Where
- St. Thomas's Abbey
Mendel cultivated 28,000 pea plants between 1856 and 1863 to establish rules of heredity, laying the foundation for Mendelian inheritance.
Mendel conducted groundbreaking genetics experiments with pea plants at St. Thomas's Abbey in Brno. He tested approximately 28,000 plants, primarily Pisum sativum, to demonstrate how invisible factors determined traits. This work established the laws of Mendelian inheritance, though it was initially interpreted as hybridization studies.
Sources
- Gregor Mendel Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-26
- Mendelian inheritance Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-09
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